" -- Vol. II. p. 22.
His favorite dogma was the superiority of Being to all knowing
and doing. Association on a high basis was his ideal for the present
conjuncture. "I hear every one crying out for association," said he;
"I join in the cry; but then I say, associate first with the Spirit,
-- educate for this spirit-association, and far more will follow than
we have as yet any idea of. Nothing good can be done without
association; but then we must associate with goodness; and this
goodness is the spirit-nature, without which all our societarian
efforts will be turned to corruption. Education has hitherto been
all outward; it must now be inward. The educator must keep in view
that which elevates man, and not the visible exterior world." We
have the promise of some extracts from the writings of this great
man, which we hope shortly to offer to the readers of this Journal.
His friend, Mr. Lane, is engaged in arranging and editing his
manuscript remains.
Mr. Heraud, a poet and journalist, chiefly known in this
country as the editor for two years of the (London) Monthly Magazine,
a disciple, in earlier years, of Coleridge, and by nature and taste
contemplative and inclined to a mystical philosophy, was a friend and
associate of Mr.
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